Leekbrookgull
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If you look at South America Joao Havelange made sure that S/A gets Four plus one into the W/Cup. YET Europe is set to get 13. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FIFA_World_Cup_qualification#South_America
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Is it time Europe to Govern World Football.
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Leekbrookgull
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Breakaway ?
Superphil
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If Brazil and Germany walked away from FIFA and formed a new conference, with a new World Cup, many, many more countries would follow. If England, Italy and Argentina joined them, FIFA would become irrelevant.
beorhthelm
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though merging would practically rule them out from ever qualifying, would that be positive thing?
cant see whats wrong with 4 countries from South America though.
Absolutely.
Hampster Gull
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Yes
drew
Drew
There are 10 members of Conmebol and 40% (sometimes 50%) of them qualify for a world cup. Uefa has 54 members and 13 qualify, that's 24% of teams. Africa has 56 teams and only 5 qualify, Asia have 4 (possibly 5) from 47 members, Oceania gets one qualifier from 11 members and North America gets 3 plus one qualifier from 41. Goes without saying that Uefa and Conmebol have the strongest teams but surely South America should lose one spot to either Asia, Africa or Oceania (I would suggest Africa as they are probably the stronger of those three).
GT49er
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Go for it! Whoever breaks ranks and tries it, I'm with them all the way!
beorhthelm
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you have a good points there. i prefer quality to quantity though and dont want to really see the world cup diluted too much for the sake of "inclusion".
drew
Drew
True, the danger is that if they dilute South America, they could do the same to Europe. At the end of the day, they want the best international teams because that not only makes for a better tournament but will probably appease the consumers and, ergo, the advertisers!
It wouldn't rule them out. Conmebol get 5, Concacaf get 3. Merge their qualifying groups and give them 7 places plus one through a play off maybe.
Wasn't there 6 in Brazil?
brazil qualified as hosts, 4 via group and 1 play off....
Could be wrong
Should merge Asia and Oceana as well.
drew
Drew
Think you're right but that was the exception rather than the general rule.
Elvis
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I agree, but we all know the reason why the USA are guaranteed a place!!
South American teams have won the World Cup nine times. Seems reasonable to let them have a fair share of the 32 slots available. 4.5 places (taking into account the playoff) is 14% of the total available, and they have won 45% of the competition finals.